Human mobility between sovereign controls and rights guarantees
In recognition of Professor Cr茅peau鈥檚 lifelong commitment to the defense of the human rights of migrants, the event will consist of a panel discussion entitled 鈥淗uman mobility between sovereign controls and rights guarantees.鈥� Professor James Hathaway, Professor H茅l猫ne Pellerin and Louis-Phillipe Jannard will join Professor Cr茅peau in this conversation.
Biography
Fran莽ois Cr茅peau, OC, OQ, FRSC, Ad E, will retire as full professor at 91黑料网鈥檚 Faculty of Law on July 31, 2025, after an extraordinary career that has shaped international migration law worldwide. He joined 91黑料网 in 2008, holding the Hans & Tamar Oppenheimer Chair in International Public Law (2009鈥�2022) and directing the Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism (2015鈥�2020). From 2011 to 2017, he served as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants, undertaking official missions across the globe and chairing the UN Human Rights Procedures Coordination Committee. Earlier in his career, he held the Canada Research Chair in International Migration Law at Universit茅 de Montr茅al and founded C脡RIUM, a leading research centre on international studies. He has also been an invited professor at top institutions worldwide, including Georgetown University and the Universit茅 catholique de Louvain, where he held the International Francqui Professor Chair. Professor Cr茅peau鈥檚 global leadership has been recognized with numerous honours, including the Order of Canada, the Order of Quebec, and election as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
James Hathaway:
James C. Hathaway is the Degan Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Michigan and a leading scholar in international refugee law. He has authored over one hundred publications, including The Law of Refugee Status (1991, 2014), Reconceiving International Refugee Law (1997), and The Rights of Refugees under International Law (2005, 2021), as well as serving as founding Editor of Cambridge Asylum and Migration Studies. From 2008 to 2010, he was Dean of Law and William Hearn Professor at the University of Melbourne, where he established Australia鈥檚 first all-graduate legal education program. He previously held academic positions at Osgoode Hall Law School, the Universit茅 de Moncton, and served as Counsel on Special Legal Assistance for the Disadvantaged to the Government of Canada. From 2010 to 2022, he was Distinguished Visiting Professor of International Refugee Law at the University of Amsterdam. He has also been a visiting professor or scholar at numerous universities worldwide, including Stanford, UCLA, Tokyo, and Toronto.
H茅l猫ne Pellerin:
H茅l猫ne Pellerin is Professor Emeritus of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa and an internationally recognized scholar of international migration. Her research has offered insights on the governance of migration in Canada, the OECD, and global institutions, with particular attention to the political economy of mobility. Over her career, she has authored numerous publications and advanced critical debates on immigration policy, regional migration governance, and state regulation of movement.
Louis-Philippe Jannard:
Since he followed Prof. Cr茅peau's seminar on the international law of migration in 2006, Louis-Philippe has been deeply interested in migrant and refugee rights issues. This intellectual and professional journey took him from a Masters thesis on human trafficking (Universit茅 de Montr茅al, 2009)聽to a Doctoral thesis on immigration detention in Canada (Universit茅 du Qu茅bec 脿 Montr茅al, 2023), passing through working with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Costa Rica and Canada and the Montreal Holocaust Museum. He is currently Protection Coordinator at the Table de concertation des organismes au service des personnes r茅fugi茅es et immigrantes and a Board member of the Ligue des droits et libert茅s.
